Bulriss also wants to build Great Lakes' fine chemicals business, which does the increasingly outsourced complex chemical production work for drug companies.
Moreover, while the patient base for Duchenne may be too small to spark a billion-dollar drug, the PTC chemical could work against similar underlying gene flaws in other disorders such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and spinal muscular atrophy.
But the Royal Society of Chemistry, which promotes the work of chemical sciences, says that it also meant that millions of people who saw the film saw nuclear technology being presented as a "barely-controllable force for evil".
Residents of the south Cambridgeshire village complained of a strong chemical smell during the decontamination work.
For those who slept through their high-school physics classes, batteries work by converting chemical energy into electricity.
Those drugs work by boosting chemical messengers that carry communications between nerve cells.
They focused their work on a chemical messaging system in the brain already known to play a key part in the regulation of mood and anxiety.
From the chemical composition, you have to work out the most likely mineralogy.
Cambridgeshire villagers are to take legal action against a company over a smell caused by clean-up work at a former chemical factory site.
The government is exploring ways to reduce immigration restrictions to make it easier for technical professionals, particularly those with experience in the petro-chemical industry, can come and work in Brazil.
Langer was trained as a chemical engineer, and his celebrated work has come at a time when huge strides in medicine--like the bumped-up potency of drugs--have coincided with advances in materials.
Drug companies and researchers are trying to find new drugs to restore the brain's chemical balance -- ones that work more quickly and with fewer side effects than the ones available now.
In 1991, when the government started liberalizing, the brothers figured they could expand in basic chemicals or move into higher-value work for the drug and chemical industries.
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Chinese officials last month implemented a drastic plan to combat Beijing's persistent pollution problems, taking half of the city's more than 3 million vehicles off the road, temporarily closing factories and chemical plants, and suspending all construction work.
If only some way can be found to transport and store hydrogen, the fuel cell has two powerful things going for it: It doesn't pollute and it converts 55% of the chemical energy in the fuel into useful work.
She exposes them to the chemical she is interested in, cobalt oxide and gold in the case of her battery work, and selects those viruses that produce proteins with an affinity for the chemical.
He is out to convince big resinmakers like GE and Dow Chemical to let Great Lakes do the dirty work of blending their color, heat and light requirements into one pellet they can then add to polypropylene for car bumpers.
It's a bit speculative, but once scientists understand how receptors work, they can in theory use chemical agents to switch them on or off.
They focused on drugs which work by increasing levels of the mood controlling chemical serotonin in the brain.
Moon's work focused on studying how a cascade of chemical signals was involved in the regeneration of the fins of zebrafish and the bodies of tadpoles.
There is no good reason this country should continue to expose our children to a chemical that is known to disrupt the way our hormones work when there are safe, BPA-free alternatives available for baby bottles, sippy cups, and baby food and infant formula packaging.
Currently, they are building the device using a gallium-phosphide semiconductor, and while the existing rendition still requires "additional energy" outside of sheer sunlight for the process to work, they're hoping that the American Chemical Society will warm up to the idea and give 'em a helping hand.
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Debate may become less genteel and the work of all those worthy committees on fish quotas and chemical regulations could be disrupted.
In 2000 the Salt Lake City biotech firm bought the rights to a chemical cousin of an existing anti-inflammatory, hoping it would work as a cancer preventive.
But as part of his course work he toured a Magnolia Ice Cream plant with one of his chemical engineering classmates, his soon-to-be wife, and learned of a franchise opportunity.
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These sites work as switches activating one biochemical pathway when they encounter the chemical signals of infectious agents, and a different one when they meet with those of an interloper organ.
Speaking at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans, Miriam Sticklen of Michigan State University described her work on engineering corn stalks to contain an enzyme normally found in the stomach of cattle.
Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen chemical effect in Vincent Van Gogh's Flowers In A Blue Vase that is dulling the work's vibrant yellows.
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"Honestly, I couldn't think of a more exciting thing to work on as a scientist or technologist right now, " said McCormick, a chemical engineer.
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